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This Week in Weather 01/04-01/08

A man covered in frost is seen running in Russia's Siberian city of Omsk on Jan. 7 after temperatures dropped to -22 degrees Fahrenheit. Viktor Gasheyev/Reuters

Snow falls in central London around the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben on Wednesday. Toby Melville/Reuters

Manatees gather by the warm water flowing from the Florida Power & Light Riviera Beach power plant in the Intercoastal Waterway on Tuesday to stay warm as the area experiences unusually chilly temperatures. Lannis Waters/The Palm Beach Post/AP

A highland cow covered in snow feeds in Pickering, England, as heavy snowfall continues to fall across large areas of Britain on Monday. John Giles/AP

South Korean Army soldiers shovel snow on a street in Seoul on Monday. Thousands of workers in the South Korean capital battled the city's heaviest snowfall in nine years. Yonhap/AP

People sled in Heaton Park in Manchester, England, on Tuesday. Many schools have been closed and airports have suspended flights after heavy snowfall across much of the country. British authorities have issued severe weather warnings. Jon Super/AP

An image sent from NASA's Terra satellite shows much of the UK under snow and ice on Thursday. University of Dundee/NEODAAS/AP

Workers clear footpaths in central Beijing on Monday after authorities shut schools, mobilized extra buses, and ordered thousands of residents to help clear icy roads and walkways when the Chinese capital was hit with its worst snowfall in years. David Gray/Reuters

A military jet passes by a skier at Glenshee in Scotland on Jan. 7. Danny Lawson/AP

Icicles cling to strawberries on Wednesday in Lakeland, Fla. Farmers spray their crops with water to help protect them against the cold temperatures in the area. Chris O'Meara/AP

A bride poses for a photo after a group wedding at the 26th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, China, on Wednesday. The wedding was organized by the city government and 28 couples participated in the ceremony. Aly Song/Reuters

A vehicle drives past a mountain of snow piled up in Sioux City, Iowa, on Tuesday. Jim Lee/Sioux City Journal/AP

A man drinks tea on a cold and foggy morning in Jammu, India, on Monday. More than 20 people have died in cold-weather-related incidents in northern India, police said Sunday, including 10 people killed in train accidents caused by the dense fog. Channi Anand/AP

Krystyna Rudzki removes snow from her car in Davenham, England, on Tuesday as Britain faces one of the coldest winters in 100 years with conditions causing 'widespread, persistent, and severe,' problems this week, according to forecasters. Martin Rickett/AP

A bus is seen encrusted in ice and snow in a parking lot of a bowling alley in Omaha, Neb., where a fire was being put out on Jan. 7. Nati Harnik/AP

Icicles cover an orange tree after it was sprayed with water throughout the night in Plant City, Fla., on Wednesday. The water was sprayed to protect the plants in the nursery from the cold weather. Scott Audette/Reuters

Kap, a polar bear at the Neumuenster Zoo in Germany, relaxes as temperatures fall to 23 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday. Heribert Proepper/AP

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Hardline Islamist insurgents, including the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, now control a second Syrian province after Raqqa, the stronghold of the Islamic State group. But ISIS isn't allied with the Islamists who tookover Idlib.

ByMariam Karouny, ReutersMarch 28, 2015

Islamist groups including Al Qaeda's Nusra Front - but not ISIS - have seized the city of Idlib for the first time in Syria's civil war, fighters and a monitoring group said on Saturday.